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The Los Angeles County Architecture of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, (323) 857-6000, www.lacma.org, is alms an exhibition through Jan. 5 that gets to the absolute affection of the city's self-image as a avant-garde trendsetter. ''A Century of Fashion: 1900-2000'' begins with corseted Victorians and passes by flappers and hippies afore catastrophe at what the architecture calls ''a globalization of appearance and a minimalist access from bunch designers.'' Admission, $7, and anybody is accepted chargeless on the additional Tuesday of every month. The architecture is accessible apex to 8 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, apex to 9 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

A awakening of the Tony-winning agreeable ''Big River,'' performed to abundant acclamation in 2001 by the Deaf West Theater in North Hollywood, is actuality presented by the Center Theater Group's Mark Taper Forum, 135 North Admirable Avenue, (213) 625-2772, www.centertheatregroup.com. The appearance has music and lyrics by Roger Miller and a book by William Hauptman; the choreographer and administrator Jeff Calhoun of the Deaf West Theater has reimagined it with a casting that includes hearing-impaired performers. Tickets are $40 and $50 weekends, $35 and $45 during the week. The appearance is appointed to run through Dec. 29.

The Architecture of Contemporary Art, 250 South Admirable Avenue, (213) 626-6222, www.moca-la.org, is featuring the photography of the German artisan Thomas Struth through Jan. 5. His stark, sometimes awesome photographs are of buildings, flowers, landscapes, individuals and, best famously, museums. General admission, $8; accessible 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, except for Thursday back it closes at 8 p.m.

''Million Dollar Cars: The World's Best Valuable Automobiles'' is anchored at the Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Boulevard, (323) 930-2277, www.petersen.org, through Jan. 26. On appearance are a 1939 Bugatti 57C that the French government presented as a bells allowance to the absolutist of Iran, a 1938 Mercedes Benz 540K Special Roadster already endemic by the cine mogul Jack Warner and Steve McQueen's 1956 Jaguar XKSS. General admission, $10; Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sightseeing

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The 57,000-square-foot Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 West Temple Street, (213) 680-5200, www.olacathedral.org, rises 128 anxiety aloft the northwest rim of burghal Los Angeles. Highlights accommodate the abundant brownish doors advised by the Los Angeles sculptor Robert Graham, a life-size brownish crucifix by Simon Toparvsky and 27,000 aboveboard anxiety of alabaster windows that afford a buttery light. Accessible weekdays 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Grove at the Farmers Market, 6333 West Third Street, (323) 933-9211, www.shopthegrove.com, is captivated about the eastern end of the admirable Farmers Market, and appearance a trolley car on its capital avenue and shops like F.A.O. Schwarz, Nordstrom and Oliviers & Co. The best affordable allure actuality is the bodies watching. Accessible Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

This is additionally the affection of the taping division for those television series, mostly sit-coms, that band afore a flat audience. Tickets are free, but a assertive bulk of backbone is appropriate back audiences charge access early, band up and watch as some scenes are attempt assorted times and casting associates shuttle amid sets on the complete stage. Also, best shows do not accept those beneath 18.

A acceptable abode to analysis for tickets is the Internet armpit www.tvtickets.com, or (818) 753-3480, which offers tickets to abounding accepted hits like ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' and ''8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.'' You artlessly ample out the anatomy and book out the tickets, forth with the continued account of rules and aegis regulations that accompany them.

A acceptable abode to atom absolute Angelenos at comedy is the Arclight Cinemas, 6360 West Sunset Boulevard, (323) 464-1478, www.arclightcinemas.com, one of a new cast of flush Los Angeles cinemas. The Arclight accuse $11 but offers such amenities as aloof seating, advanced complete and bump technology in 14 auditoriums and a accepted bistro and retail store. Adjacent is the afresh refurbished Cinerama Dome cinema.

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Where to Stay

For the trend-inclined, there is the new 207-room Burghal LA Standard, 550 South Flower Street, (213) 892-8080, fax (213) 892-8686, www.standardhotel.com, a sister to the aboriginal Standard on the Sunset Strip. It opened in May with the aforementioned absurd touches and retro-1960's feel, including belvedere beds, amethyst sofas and blithely brave bogus accommodation poolside. Its rooftop bar is awash backward into the night with the adolescent and beautiful. Doubles alpha at $165.

Not far away, but appearing to be in a altered universe, is the 188-room Wyndham Checkers, to become Hilton Checkers abutting month, 535 South Admirable Avenue, (800) 423-5798, fax (213) 626-9906, www.checkershotel.com, a small, European-style abode with an antiques-filled antechamber and apartment with Old World appliance and thick, aureate comforters. Doubles alpha at $219.

Budget: The Inn at Venice Beach, 327 Washington Boulevard, Venice, (800) 828-0688, fax (310) 827-0289, www.innatvenicebeach.com, is a adequate 43-room auberge a few blocks from the ocean and abreast several bars, restaurants and bank shops. The apartment accept aerial ceilings and country-style furnishings. Doubles alpha at $99, suites at $129.

Luxury: A stone's bandy from the Pacific, the Casa del Mar, 1910 Ocean Front Way, Santa Monica, (800) 898-6999, fax (310) 581-5503, www.hotelcasadelmar.com, is in a admirable Atlantic City-style architecture agilely adequate to its 1920's Italian Renaissance Awakening feel. Abounding of the 129 rooms, with abundant board appliance and aged appointments, attending out assimilate the ocean, and the auberge has a pool. Doubles alpha at $370 after an ocean view, $545 with.

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The St. Regis Los Angeles Auberge and Spa, 2055 Avenue of the Stars, (310) 277-6111, fax (310) 277-3711, www.stregis.com, is in a avant-garde aerial acceleration in Century City, overlooking the 20th Century Fox cine lot. The art-filled antechamber and 297 bedfellow rooms, all with clandestine balconies, appear with such amenities as a butler to abetment in unpacking and 300-thread-count bed linens. Doubles alpha at $299.

Where to Eat

Los Angeles restaurants tend to avowal about their bounded capacity and their accurate cast of European or Asian aggressive California cuisine. A contempo example, which opened in the sprawling amplitude continued active by Citrus, is Alex, 6703 Melrose Avenue, (323) 933-5233, www.alexrestaurant.com. The apartment are mahogany-lined, but the ambient is calmly casual. You can alpha with a dupe cheese soufflé with caramelized pear and a broiled langoustine and assemble salad. Capital courses accommodate brittle skinned Arctic burn with aureate amazon compote and Santa Barbara atom prawn nage. Amid the ambrosia choices is lemongrass crème brûlée. With a abstinent canteen of wine, the absolute for a banquet for two will be about $180, additional tax and tip; a four-course prix fixe banquet is $60 a person, after wine. The restaurant is accessible for cafeteria Wednesday through Friday and for banquet Monday through Saturday.

Ventura Boulevard amid Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Universal Burghal is sushi row. A accepted stop is Tama Sushi, 11920 Ventura Boulevard, (818) 760-4585, ascetic and modernist with light-brown copse and cream-colored walls allegory with the charcoal carpeting and jet-black tablecloths. Appetizers accommodate octopus and cucumber salad, and a adorable Pacific lobster salad, and amid the capital courses are a seafood hot pot and beef sukiyaki. But sushi is the absolute star, with specials including a yellowtail in wasabi chrism or a shrimp crisis roll. There is an all-encompassing account list, too. Banquet with a brace of glasses of wine or sake, is $50 to $75 for two. Cafeteria and banquet Monday to Saturday.

Bustling and ambrosial is the burghal Water Grill, 544 South Admirable Avenue; (213) 891-0900. Boasting some of the freshest seafood in the city, and the widest selection, the storefront is about consistently arranged with burghal ability brokers. Adorned with paintings of the sea, the 1920's-era allowance in the capital attic of an adorned burghal appointment architecture is a abatement alloy of asperous copse and blooming tiles. Freshness is stressed, so the card changes regularly. A contempo highlight was a adorable filet of sea bass in a decidedly ambrosial red-curry sauce. The alternative of oysters is consistently extensive. Banquet for two will run about $130 additional tax and tip. Cafeteria and banquet weekdays, banquet weekends.

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But if you appetite to apperceive area Angelenos absolutely eat, booty a cruise to Du-Par's Restaurants and Bakeries central the Farmers Market at Third Street and Fairfax Avenue (one of three locations), (323) 933-8446, www.dupars.com, which is accepted for its breakfasts, including agitating French toast. The Farmers Market is accessible circadian 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

A added aberrant best is Roscoe's House of Craven N Waffles, at four locations including 1514 North Gower Street in Hollywood, (323) 466-7453. Besides huge breakfasts, Roscoe's offers absurd craven smothered in gravy and onions with two waffles ($7.30). Monday to Thursday 8:30 a.m. to midnight, Friday and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. and Sunday apex to midnight.

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